Antiquarians a la Greque [graphic]
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11791906
Description
- Title
- Antiquarians a la Greque [graphic]
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Contributor
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [14 July 1805]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. July 14th, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
- Abstract
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"Two grotesque and foolish connoisseurs standing admiring a collection of Egyptian statuary, both looking at a mummy case at left, one simpering, pointing and looking through pince-nez, the other squinting through a short spyglass; the antiquities include another mummy case, male and female statues, two sphinxes and a grotesque sculpture of a dog on a plinth decorated with hieroglyphs."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 32 x 24.2 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 29 of volume 8 of 14 volumes. - Provenance
- From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 35.8 x 28 cm, on sheet 39 x 29 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1805
Etchings England London 1805 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Historians
Mummies
Sculpture
Sphinxes - Subjects
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Historians
Mummies
Sculpture
Sphinxes
England > 1805
England > London > 1805
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8510361
- Object ID (OID)
- 11791906
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